Month: May 2017

The excitement is really starting to build for Saturday. I’ve been getting that nervous anticipation feeling since about 8 days out. I didn’t feel this heading into Umstead and thought it might be gone for good (been there and done that and all). I’m glad it’s back though as a lot of fond memories (i.e. standing in…

I finally joined the mile high club this past week and I have to admit that it was harder than I thought it would be. I don’t travel an awful lot whether for business or for family vacations so the opportunity rarely presents itself. And when I do travel, it’s typically to locations either on…

Even though I’ve been running for five years now and doing ultras for 3 of them, I’m still not sure if I’m doing the whole taper thing right. You’re supposed to ramp down your weekly mileage from your peak week to race day. My problem is that the only variance in my weekly mileage depends…

I just finished my last long run of this training cycle – 31 miles. I had been looking forward to and dreading it at the same time all week long. Up until now, I didn’t even know that was possible. After last week’s blisteringly fast pace, I was wondering how much time I could lop off…

Not to spoil the ending or anything, but it was the best of times. . . Well, that was pretty fast: Part I A co-worker from our Geneva office who runs ultras was in town this past week. We have worked together for about three years now, but had never met in person. Since he was going…